Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-21
What Nr. Barbour Saws.

Everybody likes to know what Mr.. BAR
BoUR has to say whenever any question
comes up concerning the policy and the
prospects Of the Democratic party OF Viz
cinia. Everybody, therefore, will read
with interest what he said last Saturday to
the Washington correspondent OF the Alex
andris Gazette, who reports him as follows /:
"Nr. Barbour said Richmond was too
hot TO hold q convention there in August;
that when the state Central Committee de-
termined to hold n convention the general
understanding seemed &c. be that 1t should
be held somewhere IN or near the noun
tains, and the impre ssiOn then was tina:
probably stanton would he the place; but
that when the State Executive Committee
met last Wednesday it was found that
Stanton could hardly accommodate 20
large a body, and that then, as Mr.. Stuart
invited the convention 10 Roanoke, and
said The new opera house there would ac-
commodate il, that all the money requisite
for its expenses would be raised there;
that a great many northern people had
settled there, and that it would be well
TO let them see a body OF represent
alive virginia Democrats, and that he would
see that satisfactory arrangements were
made about reduction in railroad fare,
and as nothing was said about Richmond.
the committee deemed it advisable to select
Roanoke for the reasons offered by Mr. stu
srf ~ well A. for the additional one that
Roanoke is within ten miles OF the highest
pont in the Blue Ridge; that 1t has rail-
road communication with all other parts OF
the State and is in section OF the state at
least said 10 be lukewarm in its Democracy,
and Is also in the white district oil the state,
The district upon which the Democrats
formerly depended for their maorlties.
Mr.. Barbour said that from the lnf0r-
nation he obtained at the meeting OF
toe safe Executive Committee almost
everybody thought it advisable that
a convention should be held, though some
persons from Warrenton and few from
some other parts Of the State feared con-
yention might breed trouble, but that the
general tenor Of the information from the
State at large was decidedly IN favor OF the
convention. Some people he heard were op-
posed 10 II lest II should take decided
ground against constitutional amendment
for the reputation Of all the debt unfunded
in Riddleberger bonds, and some Tor
other reasons, but that the OppO-
He said he also learned at the meet
ing that the indications OF victory next
fall ale decidedly favorable, and eont'nu'
ing, said his party had margin OF seven
or eight members OF the Legislature to
lose and still retain control OF that body,
lint that, while It might lose member or
two In some sections, II would Offset them
by eaual, IL not larger, gains in Others,
and that he felt pretty confident the party
xyo,Id not only hold it, own, but stand a
fa,r chance Of increasing IL majority in
The Legislature. When asked II he in-
tended TO take charge OF his party 10 It's
next falps campaign he replied that was
a question for the approaching conyen.
tion to answer; that be certainly did not
coyet the place, but that II the convention
reappointed him chairman OF lis State Com
mittee be would not feel at liberty TO de.
cline It; be bad never yet been delinquent
i'm bis service TO the Democratic party OF his
State, and 30 longss he retsiued his strengtt
and health be never would be. This last
remark induced the correspondent 10 scar
Mr. Barbour's appearance az an expert, anC
all yirglnians will be glad TO learn that hs
IA In perfect health. aud LOOKS ~ well anC
rs strong ss he did twenty years ago"